This is John Batchel, conversation with the author David Petrucia, his book,

1920, the year of the six presidents. Wilson stepping aside, he's ill, finished his second term, barely.

The man who will win Warren G. Harding for the Republicans, but other names who will become presidents,

Calvin Coolidge, after the sudden death of Warren Harding in office.

Herbert Hoover, who will be mentioned often in the 1920s,

and is part of the success of this year because of his aid to Europeans

who are still reeling from the Great War's end.

Theodore Roosevelt, who's a candidate for the presidency right up until his sudden death in January

of 1919 before the year of the nomination, but he was often seen as the once and future.

And Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

the heir apparent of the Roosevelt reputation and legend,

who was a very young man at this time,

Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

However, because of the process of nomination by the Democrats, as David here introduces,

the man who will be the future president of the United States, now nominated for the vice

presidency and stumbling.

David Petrucia, on 1920, the year of the six presidents, looking at Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

nominated as vice president on the Democratic ticket, which is not successful. Much more of this

later. Pretty much for a vice president. I mean, he's not a contender.

He's not going to get votes during the Democratic National Convention.

There's a letter to the editor, I think, in the New York Times.

It says, why not him for president?

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